Elliott Museum

Founded in 1961 by Harmon P. Elliott to honor his father Sterling Elliott — the Massachusetts inventor whose credits include a mechanical addressing machine and an early quadricycle steering knuckle Henry Ford licensed. The museum was reborn in 2013 in a 48,000-square-foot LEED-certified building whose centerpiece is a three-story robotic garage: pick a car from a touchscreen and an automated crane lifts one of roughly 90 vintage vehicles onto a rotating display floor. Around it are Stuart-area history galleries, a signed-baseball-card collection said to be among the country's largest, plus Americana, art, boats, and the miniature circus upstairs.

What to order

Ask the front desk which car cycles are running; the auto-vault demo is the reason to come and doesn't run continuously. Admission around $16 adults, $6 kids 6–12, free for active military and veterans. Combo tickets with the House of Refuge save a few dollars.

Hours

Daily 10a–5p